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Late last night, or, technically, very early this morning, I did a long stream about the recent Bully Hunters fiasco. We went over a lot, so if you would like to watch it (though the first hour is still processing, unfortunately) it’s listed below for your viewing pleasure.

But, this post if for all of you who don’t feel like sifting through a 3 hour stream, or thousands of tweets, in order to figure out just what the fuck is going on with this latest episode of cringe in the video game industry. Some are even going so far as to label it the beginning of GamerGate 2.0, although I’m not sure I will go there just yet. However, there does seem to be a highly coordinated push to inject more SJW poison into our favorite hobby. Just look at the recent news about the Fair Play Alliance and all the gaming companies that have signed on to coordinate lame “harassment” policies across multiple platforms and games. We could even point to the ridiculous “teabagging” fakery from earlier this week. Point is, a lot of stuff has been happening in the gaming space as of late and I would be lying if I said it didn’t remind me of some of the dumb shit I saw during GamerGate.

Anyway, back to Bully Hunters. For those of you who don’t know what it is, here’s an excerpt from one of the asslicking articles done by the gaming press in the run-up to last night’s launch…

The Bully Hunters are a collective of women who play Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. They’ve teamed up to target in-game misogynists and trolls who harass women.

Describing themselves as a “vigilante hit squad of elite female gamers,” the Bully Hunters will be livestreaming their work on Thursday afternoon at 7 p.m. ET / 4 p.m. PT. The video above gives you a good sense of what they’re about (warning: it includes some strong language). The video warns: “If you think harassment is just part of the game, we know who you are, we know what you play, and we are coming for you.”

Online games spaces are notoriously hostile to players who identify as women. Now, CS:GO players who face abuse can report into BullyHunters.org. The team says it will then “infiltrate CS:GO and eliminate offenders from the game through the sheer force of their unmatched skill.”

The whole thing sounds like a fucking comedy skit, but it isn’t. It’s real life. Well, allegedly. Come to find out, most of the show last night was faked. The footage at the beginning showing the “harassment” of female gamers was recorded by actors. The gameplay examples were phony as fuck, with the host, Natalie Casanova (aka ZombiUnicorn), admitting all of that on Twitter this morning.

The #BullyHunters stream is faking all their matches.The very first person being bullied was "therosethorn" and they called in "BULLY HUNTER_77".

She should probably go back to the Old Ways, since she looks about 100 times more fuckable in that clip than she did last night. Perhaps participating in a conjob adds 25 pounds on camera, though. Not sure. She had an excuse for this foul language, by the way. It was all the fault of 4CHAN HACKERS!

All of this actually didn’t even get me that worked up. Honestly, I’m quite used to seeing feminist scams, at this point. Cringey livestreams about so-called harassment are hilarious, but you know what’s not? Threatening DMCA takedowns of people who make fun of you. She did this a few times over the last day or so, with this being the most blatant example…

If you rebroadcast my image/likeness whatsoever you will be hit with DMCA & Ive shut many channels down doing this as a means to harass me. Just have your own discussions & make your own content

I don’t think I need to tell you this, but I’ll say it anyway: This is absolutely not how copyright law works. Neither is this…

Thank you. Guys, making critical review or journalistic content all you want. But be aware if you're just making malicious content to harass & attack further, that's not fair use & is subject to DMCA. https://t.co/TvrpWOoh3s

If you're not just making malicious content just to bully/harm, then go for it dude. That's all I'm saying. Journalistic content & critical review is fair use & that's fine. I was merely pointing out harassing content does not constitute "fair use."

FCB Chicago is enlisting its talent as part of a passion project to fight harassment in the video-gaming world.

FCB Chicago and its St. Louis-based sister agency, New Honor Society, are partnering with SteelSeries, an esports and professional gaming group, to launch this movement. The Bully Hunters also have the support of the National Coalition for Women and the Diverse Gaming Coalition.

Starting Thursday, April 12, the Bully Hunters movement invites harassed gamers to seek support from Bully Hunters and receive help from what the agency calls a vigilante hit squad of elite female gamers — and some men — who will eliminate offenders from the popular game “Counter Strike: Global Offense” game through their outmatched talents.

If that was the idea, I have to think that it was a massive fail. Even SJWs were making fun of this clown show. How could you not?

Oh, and there’s a lot more from Natalie Casanova. You would think these people would learn to pick some cleaner people, but they never do. It would be like hiring me to front your anti-drinking campaign.

There’s also some other curious things happening, like how her Playboy shoot mysteriously disappeared from their site on April 9th, 3 days before this shitshow.

https://twitter.com/TheGatorGamer/status/984705069181538305

I guess the “marketing agency” decided there was some content in the post that was detrimental to their headset-selling scheme. Oh, and like I just said on Twitter, even 1000 words into this post, I’m barely scratching the surface.

I haven’t mentioned the part about their website linking to the wrong Twitter and causing an alleged male victim of rape to get spammed with notifications.

The photo is what you get when you click the twitter link on their website. thier "handle"@BullyHunters leads you to a man who was raped at 16 and was pleading with twitter for help. He doesn't seem fake. They are literally harassing someone. The fucking irony. pic.twitter.com/1zwB9QDkqI

I should have gone into more detail. The Bullyhunters claim they're a group of women fighting harassment. If you look at the address bar you see "fcbchi" or FCB Chicago, an ad agency. The highlighted part shows the file name, revealing it was made for Steelseries, their client.

And what about this screen from the broadcast, which describes the “three types of bullies?”

Or how signing up to their website gives the ad agency access to all your data, which they can then sell to the highest bidder…

We talked about all this, and more, on the stream last night. We also had a big discussion about the game industry in general, along with some other, more eclectic topics. Go watch it before these losers try to have it DMCA’d.

Oh, and before I head out, I guess it should be noted that Natalie Casanova (aka Nati, aka ZombiUnicorn, aka scamming fraudster) is now trying to backpedal away from this catastrophe as quickly as possible.

https://twitter.com/TheRalphRetort/status/984797555887394816

Well, you’re finally using some sense, dear. Even though it’s too late to avoid a lifetime of memes about this disaster, you might be able to escape with some of your dignity, if you back away now.